First off I wear glasses! Does anyone else have the problem of users wanting their font so big that you have to take their screen resolution to 1024x768 or 800x600?!? I understand as you age your eye site can diminish, it is happening to me! You know what I do, I get yearly eye checkups with a stronger prescription! At a certain point it is not a computer problem so much as a vanity problem of not wanting to wear glasses!

I feel your pain, as a fellow glasses wearer (is that a word) i don't get why people just don't have there eyes checked yearly. I like to have my screen resolution as high as it goes and I can see fine since my prescription is up to date.

This can cause damage to other people that use the computer. If you are trying to read at 800x600 your eyes will keep trying to adjust and just give you a headache. So you can tell the users that want this that it is a health hazard to those around them.

Maybe 1 in 100 people i meet who wear glasses have worse eyes than i do. My prescription is -7.50. I don't let people use the fact that they wear glasses (or might need them) make me change the resolution. I keep all of our monitors at the highest resolution possible. My reasoning is that if my sh**ty eyes can see JUST FINE, so can yours.

0 sympathy here... if you need smaller screen resolution and already have something 17in or bigger infront of you. then your stuck getting glasses, or learning how to set your own resolutions and setting it back if I change it.

Can't say I've ever run into that problem before. I would think that increasing the size of the fonts wouldn't really help, would it? In my case, at least, when I have my contacts out, everything's still blurry until I put my nose on the monitor. Distance is what matters, rather than size.

Regardless, though, there is indeed the option of contact lenses for the vain. I find them more comfortable than glasses, to boot. But, people are lazy and if there's an easier and less expensive option, they'll always take it. On that subject, at least, you definitely have my sympathies.

I guess it teed me off because this person had to have a 23" widescreen monitor. Which has lost any advantage there was now. It is like getting a muscle car and never doing over 25 miles an hour.

Not fully true. Taking 2 monitors at the same screen resolution, the larger one will still have more desktop space. Sure, you are still wasting a big chunk of the 23" widescreen monitor but it is still providing more space than a smaller monitor.

That being said, I do agree with all other above statements and how annoying it is. Why spend all this money getting them more/bigger monitors when they keep the resolution so small that it may as well have made no difference?

Oh man.. Glad other people have users complain about not being able to see. "I got a new monitor and now everything is blurry. I can't read the icons." >.<

One lady complained SO MUCH, that her boss got her a 26" monitor and I had to go in and not only completely murder the resolution but also try to get our Remote Desktop to mimic the local settings to a point where she could read the local desktop AND the remote without bitching.

I have a user that we had to get him a 24" widescreen, and even then he still has it at the lowest possible resolution and still increased the font sizes on text. We're getting ready for the storm of complaints from him since we are upgrading their ERP software which the new version has a required minimum resolution that is well above what his monitor is set at.